Hamilton: academical

Remember Strokes-ian almost-rans The Walkmen? Well frontman Hamilton Leithauser is back with a catchy new song, a shonky crew cut and a band featuring members of Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes and Dirty Projectors. Observe:

3.42pm GMT

(Don't) watch the Throne

We don’t have Sky Atlantic at home, so I finally took my receipt of the Game Of Thrones Season 3 DVD last week. But no sooner had we devoured the first few episodes, than Sky was dangling Season 4 in front of our noses in TV spots that basically revealed which characters made it through to the end of the series we hadn’t had a chance to watch yet. Personally I wasn’t too bothered – it’s pretty hard to avoid spoilers in the Guide office, and the fact that I knew SPOILER ALERT Sean Bean got the chop at the end of the first series didn’t make it any less shocking when it happened. But my girlfriend was apoplectic.

So do we need to lay down more spoiler ground rules? Should there be an internationally accepted grace period between the DVD release of one series and the advertising campaign of the next to give everyone a chance to catch up? Are you annoyed that I’ve spoiled the end of season one for you now, even though you’d have to be living in a Dothraki cave for the last five years to not know what happens to Sean Bean? Or, like me, are you annoyed that people feel obliged to write SPOILER ALERT every time they mention a minor plot detail, just to appease the Spoiler Stasi?

To summarise: what are your spoiler rules?

"Don't tell me what happens at the end of Breaking Bad, I'm still on Season 3" Photograph: REX/c.HBO/Everett

3.05pm GMT

In a field of their own

The Field Music brand is becoming such a mark of quality craftsmanship that I would happily buy furniture made by them, or entrust them with the running of a small regional rail franchise. The band’s David Brewis is about to release a new album of high-spec synth-pop under his School Of Language guise. It’s called Old Fears, and if you pre-order it from the Field Music website – which you should – you’ll get a bonus five-track 7” called More Fears. Indeed, those five tracks are streaming below. The fact that these are merely offcuts and outtakes should give you an idea as to the brilliance of the actual album.

2.42pm GMT

Massive prawns

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle chunters back into town this Saturday, carefully swerving a potential viewing conflict with Take Me Out. The big news, of course, is that Chris Morris has come out of TV retirement to take Armando Iannucci’s place as Lee’s deadpan interrogator, although don’t expect a barrage of quotable Brass Eye-style barbs. The way the two of them continue to pick away at Lee’s “morally superior” joke-free schtick is brilliantly subtle. Anyway, here’s a clip from the first show of Lee denouncing Twitter as a “state surveillance agency staffed by gullible volunteers”.

Time for a trawl through the Stewart Lee archives. Share your favourites, why don’t you. No, not ‘aah’.

2.00pm GMT

Haim R Good Enough

Forgot to post this new Haim vid earlier, but was reminded when a recommendation flashed up for it while watching that Cyndi Lauper video. Sometimes YouTube algorithms speak the biggest truth.

1.51pm GMT

Some good suggestions for our ‘Best Film Theme Tunes That Actually Have Something To Do With The Subject Matter Of The Film’ riff.

That Cyndi Lauper video really is quite something.

12.47pm GMT

Bow down bitches

The soundboard is an internet standby that never gets old. How we laughed at those Arnie soundboard prank calls in about 2001. Not that you could really make a prank call with this Beyonce soundboard, but it might keep you amused for five minutes or so. “I’ll cook this meal for you naked!” “Watermelon!” etc. Nick Cave soundboard next, please.

Who is your daddy and what does he do? Photograph: PictureGroup/REX

12.33pm GMT

Smells like chicken

Here at Guide Daily, we’re always suckers for a preposterous marketing gambit, even if there seems little danger of it ever being followed through. So our interest was piqued when news wafted our way this morning that the makers of Hannibal (the slick TV series starring Mads Mikkelsen as Dr Hannibal Lecter, due back on Sky Living in April) have plans to launch a tie-in fragrance and range of home furnishings.

Beasts of the northern Wild

Here’s a rather wonderful mix that Wild Beasts have made for FACT, providing a few clues as to where their heads were at while making their new album Present Tense (out this week). It ranges a little more widely than yer typical FACT mix – from Burzum to The Blue Nile, via Lil B and the band’s own version of Laughing Len Cohen’s Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye.

An invisible man sleeping in your bed

I ain't afraid of no double negative. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/COLUMBIA

Has there ever been a better – as in more effective – film theme tune than Ghostbusters? Knocked out in a couple of days by former Barry White sideman Ray Parker Jr (apparently after Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham had turned down the opportunity), it went to No. 1 in the US and No. 2 in the UK and has since been covered by everyone from Run DMC (for Ghostbusters II) to David Essex (yes, really). Basically, it did a better job than any advert or trailer could hope to of making the film seem cool and fun to its target audience.

When did film theme tunes stop having anything to do with the subject matter of the film? These days, both teen movies and pop songs take themselves far too seriously. Just listen to this awful, bombastic Ellie Goulding dirge from the new Divergent movie. They’ve intercut the song with clips from the film in a desperate attempt to make the painfully clunky lyrics (what the hell is “the departure lounge of disbelief”?) seem somehow relevant to the action. But really, it could mean anything.

So, your nominations please for ‘Best Film Theme Tunes That Actually Have Something To Do With The Subject Matter Of The Film’.

Not much love anywhere, though, for Ramis’s last film: the Jack Black / Michael Cera two-hander Year One, which only scores 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. Can it really be that bad? I just watched a couple of clips and they both managed to raise more smiles than when I rewatched Caddyshack a few years ago, a film that seems painfully of its time. But maybe I’m just a juvenile cretin who’ll snigger at the mere mention of the word “foreskin”.

10.22am GMT

I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!

If there’s one thing we’ve missed since Heisenberg cooked his last batch, it’s Bryan Cranston going loco. But never fear, because this latest Godzilla movie clip is nothing but 43 seconds of just that. No footage. Just B-Cranz going from threatening “listen to me Jesse” whisper to full-on “Remember my name” meltdown. How can a 200-foot-high city-stomping reptile hope to compete with this?

10.11am GMT

Every day he's hustlin

We despatched Guide Previews Ed Lanre to New York to interview Rick Ross, and it looks like he’s gone native.

Little shot of Horrors

Mornin’ all. Sam here, liveblogging all day until I drop.

Let’s kick things off with some cobweb-blowing new music from The Horrors. Their new album Luminous is out on May 5 and here’s the first taster. I See You isn’t really deserving of a lyric video, since it only starts to get really good around the four-minute mark when Faris stops singing. Not that the singing bit isn’t good too, but Faris isn’t exactly Morrissey in the wordplay stakes, and I think we can all agree that what The Horrors do best is make an almighty, celestial racket.

So let’s have your verdict, in three words. Beginning with the letters I, C and U, if you’re feeling clever.